La Salle's lost colony — aiming for the Mississippi, landing on the Texas coast.
La Salle murdered by his own men (1687); the colony destroyed by the Karankawa around Christmas 1688. Its discovery panicked Spain into occupying Texas.
Sets La Salle's lost Texas colony in the context of the Spanish reaction that it provoked.
Broad colonial context for La Salle's Mississippi venture and the Gulf coast (not fort-specific).